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STORRINGTON SULLINGTON HERITAGE R5.Indd ABOUT THE TRAIL This is a self guided Rusper A24 walking trail. A29 Rudgwick Faygate A264 Warnham A281 A264 A281 Slinfold Horsham Horsham A29 Heritage Trails A281 Lower Barns Green Beeding A24 Billingshurst Southwater Nuthurst Coneyhurst A281 Ups and Downs A272 Coolham A272 West Cowfold Grinstead A29 Knepp Dial Post Partridge West Green Pulborough Chiltington Thakeham of Storrington’s A281 A24 Coldwaltham A283 Ashington Henfield Storrington Wiston A281 & Sullington & Sullington’s Amberley Washington Rusper Small Dole A24 A283 A29 Upper Rudgwick Faygate A264 Steyning Beeding Warnham A281 A264 Bramber A281 Slinfold Horsham A29 Areas of Natural Beauty/South Downs National Park military heritage A281 Lower Barns Green Beeding A24 Billingshurst Southwater X Nuthurst Coneyhurst A281 A272 HOW TO FIND US Coolham A272 West Cowfold Grinstead A29 Knepp Start point: St Mary’s Church, Sullington, Dial Post Partridge West Green Pulborough Chiltington Thakeham A281off the A283 and the postcode is RH20 4AE, A24 Coldwaltham A283 Ashington Henfieldwhere there is some parking. Storrington Wiston A281 Amberley Washington Small Dole Designed and Printed by Treetop Design Print. Tel: 01293 863131 A283 Upper BeedingACCESS & FACILITIES Steyning Bramber Walking Grade: Medium. It is not suitable for anyone needing assistance, in poor health or with a mobility scooter. Stout and robust footwear is necessary on the stony and flinty ground; much of the walk is across the Downs, which may be slippery and unsuitable during or after wet weather. It is suitable for dogs but they must be kept on a lead as sheep and cattle graze on the Downs and there are horse riders about. The walk climbs 560 feet to an altitude of 664 feet above sea level. Two of the roads have no pedestrian footpaths. Distance & time: The basic walk is 6.5 miles Facilities: There are no public toilets on the route. Sullington Barn opposite the Church is open at weekends and bank holidays and has a café and toilets. There are various places to eat in Storrington’s High Street. FIND OUT MORE: To learn more about the heritage of the wider district and discover additional trails, please visit www.horshammuseum.org Permissions Frank M Stout photo – World Rugby Museum, Twickenham Carl R Davis photo – McGill University Archives Copyright of the Francis Mond photo is with the Mond Family. am Dis sh tr r ic o t H C o m m u r Exploring Horsham District’s Heritage m o u F n s i p ty hi Partners ahead up to the South Downs Way with Home Farm Ups and Downs on your right. Climb up to the South Downs Way and onto a flinted of Storrington’s & track. Look back at the glorious views from Butser Hill in the far west to Chanctonbury Ring in the east, while straight ahead are the North Downs. Note Sullington’s military the different colours of the four sandpits between Storrington and Washington. Continue until shortly heritage before the top and go through a pair of double gates is on your left by a wooded copse. 4 Memorial stone seat to Lord Denman, MC and Storrington and Sullington are both mentioned his wife. Charles Denman won his MC in the Western in the Doomsday Book (1086); this Trail will show Desert in 1942 and lived at Highden House, which is where to look for the military heritage of the area. visible to the south from the South Downs Way. The northerly panorama from here is magnificent. The villages lie in the lea of the beautiful South Continue uphill to reach the South Downs Way, a clearly marked track. Downs with views for miles around. The landscape Turn left to go east for half a mile (about 10 minutes) reflects its livestock, agricultural and industrial to see a cast iron clad bunker on your left and views usage. No battles were fought on the land but towards Chanctonbury Ring. many in the skies above. The area was regularly used for military accommodation and training DIRECTIONS FOR THE WALK (Italics) in the last century, as well as taking in evacuees POINTS OF INTEREST (Blue/Black) from London in 1939. Storrington was one of Inside Sullington Church. the first villages in Sussex to have a WWII Home 1 Here lies the figure of a knight carved in marble, Guard unit. believed to be one of the de Covert family from the 12th century. The knight is clad in chain mail; look for his shield and the scabbard (sheath) for his sword. St Mary’s Church, Storrington has military Go east though the churchyard and at the end, opposite memorials on display, which will be explored in the lychgate. this trail, covering the last 200 years of conflicts 2 The Memorial to Submarine E24 in the including the Napoleonic Wars against France Churchyard commemorates Lieutenant Commander (1803-15) with the Peninsula War in Spain and George Wyatt Edgell Naper and his thirty four crew. The submarine was sunk on 27th March 1916 Portugal starting in 1808. Napoleon was finally off Heligoland Bight, (off the German coast) while defeated at Waterloo (Belgium) in 1815. The operating as a minelayer on its second patrol. The Crimean War (1853-1856), also features, where memorial is unique in the shape of a lamp-column the British fought with the French against the formed by an old stone roller. Russians around the Black Sea. The Old Workshop Café, which is open at weekends and Bank Holidays, is in the barn on the left and has a museum portraying local family and country life since Storrington played its part in the First and Saxon times. Second World Wars with the Roll of Honour With the barn behind you, walk south beside the farm in Storrington’s High Street and on the War and shortly go through the open gate on your left, taking the footpath onto the clearly marked bridleway. Memorials at St Mary’s, Storrington and St BEWARE of galloping horses when you cross the gallop Mary’s, Sullington recording those who died. In through a wooden gate by the ‘Wildlife Conservation Exploring both World Wars (1914-18) and (1939-1945), the Headland’ sign into a beautiful avenue of trees. At the end, turn right onto the bridleway and bearing left Horsham Canadians came to assist Britain and many were around Barns Farm continue along the centuries old billeted and trained in the area, especially in metalled track. District’s World War II prior to the ill fated Dieppe raid in 3 Barns Farm Camp was built during 1939-40 for the Heritage August 1942 and D-Day in June 1944. Canadian troops. At the end, bear left and then turn right. Continue to the end, then turn right and follow the road straight Ups and Downs Ups 5 During World War II, the Canadians used the cast iron clad bunker for exercises and practising A283 Sullington flame throwing. The Canadians reinforced three Warren roads from Storrington to the Downs including Storrington Exploring Chantry Lane. Until September 2019, there was a Churchill MkII tank nearby which was used by the 9 Horsham Canadian Army for target practice. 10 District’s Retrace your steps westward along the Way with Sandgate Heritage views over to the Isle of Wight (look ahead and 8 Quarry then to the left). At the signpost, where you can see Arundel Castle 7 in the distance, turn right onto the tarmacked road. Walk down to the former millpond with ‘Chantry Gerston Clayton Mere’ on your right and ‘the Chantry’ on the left, Farm Farm turn left to Chantry Farm - go through the livery area keeping to the footpath; do not take the private 6 road on the right. Through the metal gate and up the START New Barn The Old Copse hill. At the top, go through a tied metal gate by the FINISH Rectory footpath sign (and tie it closed behind you), bear left Waterfall Cottage 2 and through a small wooden gate; continue up the 1 rise into a lovely wooded area until Greyfriars Farm. Reservoir Chantry Farm Turn right, continue down Greyfriars Lane, which was The Chantry 3 the main route from the coast to Storrington, there Sullington Rowdell Holt Home is a house named ‘Faraday’ on the right. West Farm 6 On 1st November 1940, a Junkers JU-88, badly damaged by anti-aircraft fire, heading for Northern France, was unable to clear the Downs and crashed Chantry Hill next to the house called ‘Faraday’. Three of the four Points of interest crew died. 1 Carrying on you reach Storrington. On your left is Trail Sullington Hill 4 Barnsfarm Hill the Parish Church, St Mary’s. Chantry Post 5 7 Inside the Church there are memorials to many KEY soldiers of previous wars. Pick up a leaflet for full Car Park details. Some commemorate the Bradford family, who fought in the Napoleonic Wars from Corunna St. Mary’s Church to Waterloo. Rev. William Bradford, Chaplain of Brigade to the British Expedition led by Sir John Moore, was in the retreat to Corunna (Spain). He became Rector of Storrington from 1811 to 1857. His memorial is in the east window in the Chancel. His younger brother, Sir Henry Hollis Bradford joined the Grenadier Guards and served in the 8 10 Peninsular War. A Lieutenant Colonel, latterly on the staff of the Duke of Wellington, he was mortally wounded at Waterloo. His memorial is over the south door. Wilmot Henry Bradford was William’s son; he commanded a Rifle Brigade in the Crimean War. On the wall of the Lady Chapel, Robert Alexander Dalzell, Earl of Carnwath, also in the Grenadier Guards, fought in the Peninsular War.
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